Experience the sound walks by joining us at Lord Ashcroft Building 028 between 1-5pm.

The Department of Music and Performing Arts’ annual Festival Week is breaking new ground this year with Radiophonica Mobile Sounds Walks as part of their calendar of events.

These Sound Walks are experienced using a mobile phone, which will be provided, and take in evocative sites around the Anglia Ruskin Campus. These range from the River Cam, to the Mill Road area including the Cemetery. Each work explores different approaches to drama and place, from Gothic horror, to natural disaster and street crime.

The project, sponsored by the University’s public arts programme Visualise, is a collaboration with Enrique Tomás of noTours.org, and uses the noTours Android mobile phone software. The software enables sounds to be triggered by GPS technology according to the location of the listener, allowing listeners to take the walk at their own pace. Everyone is welcome to come and take part in the experience.

You will be asked to leave card details as a deposit to ensure the safe return of equipment.

About noTours

NoTours is a project by Escoitar.org that allows editing a place with sounds. This means that you can attach sounds to a territory and that later, when you go physically to that place you can listen to them. The trick is using our noTours Android Application that detects your location (via GPS) and plays your audios exactly in the place where you decided.

NoTours proposes an augmented aurality experience. In other words, you can add a new layer of reality to your place. You can leave messages, tell stories, create geolocated concerts or just share your thoughts.
The team of noTours.org is looking forward to know your ideas and your possible uses. In fact we are artists and developers. Take a look at some of the sound walks we have made in the world.